Ig Nobel Prizes Salute Faux Crisp Chips and Other Research Milestones

Amid great foolishness and fanfare, scholars from around the globe collected awards Thursday night at the 18th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony at Harvard University.

The event was produced by the Annals of Improbable Research, the science humor magazine, and included a miniopera, Redundancy, Again, among the tributes to the evening’s theme of “Redundancy.” (A Webcast of the ceremony can be seen

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